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Benjamin Franklin High School's student body reflected the change in demographic that occurred in Highland Park throughout the decades.
Thanks to the lingering aftereffects of the New Deal and the post-WWII boom, development in Los Angeles was in full swing in the 1960s. A tidal wave of development would begin to rumble through the sleepy neighborhood.
1966, Family matriarch Josefina Duardo decided to move to the neighborhood with her nine children from East Los Angeles after being told by relatives of Highland Park's peaceful and natural setting.
The post-war Latinoization of Los Angeles was underway, a change that would transform Northeast and South Los Angeles, and which is still transforming the city to this day.
As early as the 1920s the predominantly white residents of Highland Park began looking to other areas of Los Angeles for housing. After World War II, this westward drift became a full-on exodus of Anglo middle-class families out of communities like Hi...
While the vast streetcar system in Los Angeles was wildly successful since early in the 20th century, it was doomed to extinction in the era of automobiles and bus routes. This change is now referred to as the Great American Streetcar Scandal.
Highland Park experienced a building boom at the turn of the 20th Century that would last nearly three decades. Bringing customers on the Pacific Electric…
Highland Park is home to many of Los Angeles' firsts. How appropriate, then, that it is also the location of not just the first freeway in California, but in the United States. The Arroyo Seco Parkway began construction in the 1930s after the Automobil...
At the onset of the Great Depression, Los Angeles was the land of oil and movies, industries that seemed crash-proof. In just a few years, though, the city was struggling as much as the rest of the country.
Los Angeles' political and business leaders knew by the late 1800s that the city needed two key ingredients to make it great: more water and a transportation network that would move people and commerce throughout the basin. The transportation question ...
For hundreds of years, the Arroyo Seco was a central, life-giving resource for first the Tongva people and then successive waves of settlers. A seasonal tributary of the Los Angeles River, the Arroyo provided water, food, transportation and - perhaps m...
In 1867, William Lees Judson founded the Colonial Glass Company in Garvanza. Judson, a skilled painter and craftsman, had originally come to the area because he thought the climate might be suitable for a weak constitution.